Friday, March 18, 2011

CZW brings Best of The Best X on Saturday, April 9 to The Asylum Arenain a doubleheader with wXw’s return to Philadelphia. Both eventswill air LIVE on Pay-Per-Stream via HybridEnt.TV.

The first of the four first round brackets for Best of The Best X willbe announced over the next week. All first round matches areELIMINATION 3-way matches. The winners of each bracket will face eachother.

* CZW Heavyweight and Tag Titles on the line as Tag champions TheBriscoe Brothers, along with Devon Moore face CZW World Heavyweightchampion "The EGO" Robert Anthony and Philadelphia’s Most Wanted,BLK JEEZ and Joker

* Dream Deathmatch: “Crazy Monkey” Jun Kasai vs. Danny Havoc. Andon Monday, we will announce just what kind of insanity you will see inthis rare encounter

From NYC or North Jersey and want to see all of April 9’s action?Click to view arrangements for a bus trip to catch both CZW and wXw.

* Bandido, Jr./Azrieal will be ready for battle as they facePhilly’s Most Wanted (Joker/BLK JEEZ)

* Two men appearing on April 9’s Best of The Best will square off onApril 10 as Jeff Peterson Memorial and 16 Carat Gold Cup Winner SamiCallihan faces Kyle O’Reilly

* Recent CZW turncoat Jon Moxley will challenge Jake Crist

*CZW JAPAN TOUR GOES FORWARD AT BJW*

Big Japan Wrestling has confirmed they will still move forward withall of their events after the recent disasters that struck theircountry…and will still feature CZW stars in action. For the fullschedule, visit CZWrestling.com

*CZW/Big Japan Stars to Appear at K&S WrestleFest on April 9*

“Crazy Monkey” Jun Kasai and Daisuke Sekimoto will be among theguests at this year’s K&S WrestleFeston April 9 at The Ramada Philadelphia, 76 Industrial Hwy (Rt. 291) inEssiington, PA.

Tune in tonight to www.sundaynightshowdown.com starting at 10:30pm Est, 8:30pm Mst as UnPlugged with JJ $exay returns on the SNS Radio Network. On tonights show JJ will review the 3-18-11 edition of WWE's SmackDown on the Sy Fy network. Chris Kelly of Headlocks2Headlines.com will drop in to discuss the latest news of the week and Former WWE Ring Announcer /Actress/Singer Lauren Mayhew stops by to tell us about the latest projects she has in devolpment.

In the second hour "The Sensational Sean" joins the show to talk the latesrt gaming news and THQ's Homefront.JJ will be taking your calls via the skype line sponsored by Headlocks2Headlines.com just add sundaynightshowdown to your buddy's list or simply call 501 588 7957 or send your emails to unpluggedjj@yahoo.com and join the "Live" chatroom to be an interactive part of the broadcast.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will be working with GLAAD to create and promote an anti-bullying initiative aimed at their core audience, and has invited us to conduct trainings for their staff of writers and editors.

Our outreach to WWE was prompted by outrage from many LGBT viewers, about a series of homophobic taunts by wrestler John Cena on the USA program WWE Raw in late February. We reached out to WWE Incorporated, which responded swiftly and positively.

GLAAD was first made aware of the incidents by several of its members following the February 21 broadcast of WWE Raw, which featured wrestler John Cena responding to taunts made by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson with a rap song making fun of Johnson’s film roles. The song included lyrics like “You left us high and dry to play a fairy with a tooth?” and “He wore lipstick in Get Shorty, and rocked a skirt for The Game Plan.”

But the real kicker came near the end when he said: "Just don’t go racing to Witch Mountain, Rock, cause your mountain is Brokeback."

The next incident occurred on the show a week later (Feb. 28), when Cena was challenging another wrestler known as “The Miz” while in the ring with him, and had the crowd roaring when he joked about the Miz and his wrestling partner secretly being a couple. It began with Cena saying “Do you really want to look back years from now and realize you shared your legacy with another man?! ….Wait don’t answer that.” Cena continued:

“Now The Miz and Alex Riley are co-champions and to celebrate it they’re going to move in together. They’re going to buy one of those tandem bikes and ride to bed bath and beyond to buy some duvets. And every evening they’re going to relax with a glass of warm piot noir and watch The Notebook, or reruns of last season’s Bachelor. ……….You want to be a mentor and train him? Well, tonight I’m going to train you on how to be a man.”

The incidents were particularly troubling because WWE recently began promoting itself as PG-rated entertainment marketed primarily towards adolescent males. Young boys are of course the demographic most likely to experience homophobic bullying or to be bullying themselves. And there was wrestling superstar John Cena performing what amounted to scripted homophobic bullying of other wrestlers on a nationally broadcast show for kids.

GLAAD contacted WWE executives and explained the problem after receiving our first reports. They then spoke to John Cena and the show’s writers. We have been assured that not only will such incidents not happen again, WWE intends to reach out to their adolescent audience, with messages aimed making it clear that bullying someone with homophobic taunts or for their perceived sexual orientation is wrong. WWE released the following apology statement to that effect:

"WWE takes this issue very seriously, and has already spoken with our talent about these incidents. We are taking steps and working with GLAAD to ensure that our fans know that WWE is against bullying or discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. We strongly value our fans in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and apologize to them for these incidents."

We are very much looking forward to developing our relationship with WWE, and we thank them both for hearing our message loud and clear, and for planning to send an anti-bullying message of their own.

The weekend of April 15, 16 and 17th will see 48 wrestlers converge on the former ECW Arena in South Philadelphia for the monstrous King of Trios 2011! In all, 16 trios will compete across the three days, until just one is left standing. With this last trio, the field for the tournament is now complete! We are proud to confirm that Team Dragon Gate - Akira Tozawa, Kagetora and Super Shisa - will be the 16th and final entrant into the monstrous King of Trios 2011 tournament! Previously announced for the biggest weekend in independent pro-wrestling: